County water is coming to about 200 households east of Crystal River Mall who have tainted wells.

According to the Citrus County Chronicle, the Citrus County Board of County Commissioners voted last week to begin the first phase of running a water line to residents in the arsenic-contaminated northwest quadrant.

The work would start in about two years and impact about 200 homes in residential roads off N Citrus Avenue from the Crystal River city limit to North Sierrra Vista Drive.

For about eight years, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection has provided treatment to about 66 wells in the northwest quadrant of the county where the arsenic level exceeded the drinking water standard of 10 parts per billion, according to the Chronicle.

Arsenic is odorless and tasteless and enters drinking water supplies from natural deposits in the earth or from agricultural and industrial practices.